log of Logfish.net

A while back I created a chat database to log conversations. Based on the context of the conversation it would find responses, so if ABC was said, it would search the database for ABCD and replies with D. If ABC is not in the database, it wil search for BC and finally C.

At first I thought I might use the database to start investigating chat bots for my master thesis, but that day never came. I've now used that database to bootstrap a new implementation of Wally at Google App Engine. I can now say that I've done something using the WebApp framework, and it seems to work. With the free quota it should be able to live a good and long life, so feel free to chat with Wally the echoing chat wall.

Yes, a new site: http://www.dynmirror.net/
Using metadata files from various servers (MD5SUMS files etc) this site can couple various mirrors together and automatically create metalinks for the same hash. It is currently the fastest and easiest way to add metalinks to your website. An example is Firefox for windows version 3.5.2.

I've decided to give POST based automated file uploading a try as part of another thing I'm thinking about doing.. so I needed something to test and validate my new code. One of those server side scripts that every developer already has, in PHP it would be:

My first Django based site is up! I'm still exploring this whole Django thing and I'm not sure I should leave mod_python debug on, but we'll see. The site is a LOL time-waster called http://stopmd5.com

GNOME now uses the FreeDesktop.org Trash spec. This means that simply finding and removing old files won't work, as the .trashinfo won't be removed. So I've created a small python script to solve this problem. You can now again create a cronjob to automatically remove old files from the trash.

The new project page: http://logfish.net/pr/autotrash/
Download a snapshot from: http://git.logfish.net/autotrash.git
To get just the script, follow this link:
http://git.logfish.net/gitweb.cgi?p=autotrash.git;a=blob_plain;f=autotra...

I've installed gitweb and now you can download all my code from my git repo at: http://git.logfish.net/
It will slowly start to collect all my code ramblings and small local projects. Things that I just publish for the fun of it, not big enough for SF, not complicated enough for multiple developers. Just the idiotic but sometimes useful things.

There is a new page on logfish.net, a preview of TrueType fonts available in Ubuntu packages. The previews are pretty large and the whole page weighs in at about 7MB.
You can find it at: http://logfish.net/pr/ubuntufonts/

The SVG hit counter is born. This weekly hitcounter will show a graph of the hits of the past 8 weeks and the number of hits for the current week. Source is ofcourse available at the project site. Below is an example (at twice the size of the default):

Because Google Talk has openend up to any jabber server online, I decided to start running my own chatbot! It's a kind of speed dating thing, online.

After fiddling around with quite some configurational things and moving my first virtual server to my second (cheaper) virtual server, I decided to start hosting some of the configuration files. So I wrote a small PHP script which hosts some of my configuration files directly from my own system: from my disk to your screen!

If you want to take a look at the way logfish.net has been configured, take a look at http://configuration.logfish.net

If you would like to see more configuration files, feel free to ask me by mailing me: bram at neijt.nl